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@Gavillan Please remember that a number of guys have reported that by using a *thick* separator to insulate contacts they managed to bend them or dirty them or whatever in such a way that the contacts weren't good after, you should try completely disassembling the PCB from the disk and thoroughfully clean all contacts on both the PCB and the hard disk, possibly using some abrasive rubber and/or a specific cleaning compound, then re-assemble the whole thing and tighten the screws firmly. Also visually inspect with a magnifying glass (and a LOT of patience) the PCB, there could be a cold or cracked soldering somewhere. BOTH the above problems would lead to symptoms like you describe. Cleaning the contacts on the SATA data cable too is advised. jaclaz

You have no idea of the number of good opportunities you lose by having a machine decide for you what is worth to be read and what is not.... jaclaz

The Physicaldrive0 should mean that the target USB stick ON which it is to be run the program is the device FROM which the PC has booted. Maybe it's a quirk of the BIOS. A good idea is to boot from internal hard disk or however connect the target USB device ON which you want to run the program AFTER having booted. jaclaz

After all my initial question was not that absurd : jaclaz

Well, if anyone looks at my post , the if exist is NOT needed at all, the usual form of IF/THEN/ELSE is: something like: seems to me a little pointless, and all in all replaceable by: jaclaz

Well, no, as said, it's not fsutil the problem, as it runs normally on non existing drives it's the "if exist" check. jaclaz

Sure , it's the good guys at MS that invented a stupid format where multiple sections with same name are possible. A similar issue has already been noted at the time and the original USB multiboot did use fedit "add once": http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=61384&st=393 Maybe a good idea would be to pre-process these files to remove duplicate secions by merging them. Something like this: http://mindprod.com/project/inifiletidier.html http://mindprod.com/products1.html#INI http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?autocom=Downloads&showfile=154 http://www.codeproject.com/KB/applications/iniutils.aspx jaclaz

No you didn't and no, you are not. Try opening a command prompt. Type in it: IPCONFIG /ALL (and press [ENTER] key) If on your NON English version the string "Physical Address" is not used, the batch by MrJinje won't work. Now, re-read, this time slowly, my previous post (#10) and try doing EXACTLY what is written there. Post results. jaclaz

"High end" graphical workstations (we are talking of Autocad 9 or 10) bunch of SCSI disks with Adaptec controller. Already posted, but JFYI, re : http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm jaclaz

Well, if order of columns is not a problem, a one-liner is possible at WMIC too: wmic.exe path Win32_Logicaldisk Get description^, name To change the order of the column is trickier that it might seem: @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION FOR /f "tokens=2,3 delims=," %%A IN ('wmic.exe path Win32_Logicaldisk Get name^, description /FORMAT:csv.xsl') DO ( SET Tempvar=%%A,%%B FOR /F "tokens=1,2 delims=," %%C IN ('ECHO !TempVar!') DO ECHO %%D %%C ) jaclaz

I don't think this is the case, unless you previously made that partition into a Dynamic Disk. There is a specific product: http://www.dynamic-disk.com/download.html Read their "FAQ's": http://www.dynamic-disk.com/dynamic-disk-resource.html I guess that before (hopefully) find the solution to the problem, you need to make sure about the cause of it, but 99.99% of the time, unless the dynamic disk has been intentionally made and is a spanned volume, all you have to do is to change the partition ID from 42 to 07 in the MBR. Some more details here: http://www.bestshareware.net/howto/convert-dynamic-disk-to-basic-disk.htm#1 jaclaz

Try reversing the logic of it. Fsutil does NOT throw an error if a drive is not accessible, BUT it will report an error message. In my Italian XP this error is "Directory principale non esistente" Thus this works: @ECHO OFF for %%1 in (a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z) do ( fsutil fsinfo drivetype %%1: |FIND /V "Directory") jaclaz

Cannot say what the geeks will say, personally I have to say that there is no point in asking people NOT to ask "why" if you later post the "because" ... jaclaz

Sure. I was just only hinting what Mijzelf explicited, that the Linux "Swap partition" has actually NOT a filesystem, (the 0x82 ID simply means "don't mess with it" ): http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html As you pointed out, traditionally Linux uses this partition space as RAW, whilst you want to set up the Linux install to use a swap file, instead: http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/8208-all-about-linux-swap-space http://linux.die.net/man/8/mkswap jaclaz

More generally, and just for the record, in this Forum: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=77 there are 4 (four) stickies with slightly different tutorials about how to make Windows 7 bootable from USB devices. jaclaz

Actually he was ALREADY pointed EXACTLY to the needed things. Time to go more explicit. Open a command prompt. Run in it: IPCONFIG /ALL Look at the output. Depending on the language used the way of parsing it may differ, but basically since all it's required is the MAC address, and it should be the ONLY field which holds - (minus signs) this should work (on command line): FOR /F "tokens=2 delims=:" %A IN ('IPCONFIG /ALL ^| FIND "-"') DO ECHO MAC=%A This is a bit more "sophisticated": FOR /F "tokens=2 delims=:" %A IN ('IPCONFIG /ALL ^| FINDSTR "[0-F][0-F]\-[0-F][0-F]\-[0-F][0-F]\-[0-F][0-F]\-[0-F][0-F]\-[0-F][0-F]"') DO ECHO MAC=%A or, as already pointed out, use GETMAC.EXE or, as ONLY hinted, use WMIC: WMIC.EXE NIC Get MACAddress /Format:LIST You don't actually need .vbs, a batch is enough. Obviousyly, if you actually want to write a batch you need to learn batch syntax, the given site is full of examples and howto's, including these ones: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntfor.php http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntfortokens.php jaclaz

Is it? You may have different sources than myself: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~garth/RAIDpaper/Patterson88.pdf AFAIK it was designed to meet the growing speed of processors and for cost effectiveness against SLED's, and the fact that they are mainly used in Servers is only because PC's have become so cheap and (most) final users don't care that much about data integrity. RAID has been also commonly used on gaming rigs or graphical workstations to improve performance, typically in RAID0 stripes of two disks. jaclaz

Good , when you're back read these: http://ss64.com/nt/schtasks.html http://www.robvanderwoude.com/batexamples_r.php http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/random_nt.txt http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/random_nt2.txt And here (look for "random"): http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntset.php and you should have all you need to create a base batch. jaclaz

As always, a word of caution, what you plan to do is potentially very dangerous, besides, there is an easy way to avoid it getting to someone else: DO NOT GIVE IT TO ANYONE! If you don't trust your friend to do the same, I guess he is not that much as a friend. However, you want us to write a batch for you? Or you want to learn how to write such a batch? If #2), Start reading here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=19766 Then read here: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/batexamples_w.php http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/whoru_nt.txt http://www.robvanderwoude.com/loginscripts.php http://www.robvanderwoude.com/vbstech_network_mac.php You should get the idea. jaclaz

Unfortunately at the moment you can only have standard reply #32: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=133086 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=133086&st=8 unless you post LOTS more details on both your hardware AND software you used, and HOW you used it. Here is a quick sum up: http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html about the proper way to ask for help. jaclaz

I guess you have it wrong. I don't think nuhi did (and hopefully does and will do ) this for money. He never got a penny for all the work he put on it, since anyway nlite is free (as in free beer) to anyone non-Commercial to use. Personally, though I do like nlite and the very good work nuhi put in it, I don't like the way he carries it on (all by himself and largely in a "secretive" way), but the actual point is that there is very little to release a "Open Source", nlite is mostly a collection of tweaks and hacks, "glued" together by a very simple .NET "wizard like" app. Anyone with some time can collect the things nlite does and create a similar engine, don't think that this would take that much more time than the time needed to get familiar with nlite source. You just put together FDV's files and BoldFortune's batches/tweaks, you add some of the info available here on MSFN and it will be mostly done. Usually the problem is finding someone willing to actually spend his/her time in maintaining a program, not finding the money to "buy" the Source Code. If I were you, instead of trying to raise the money, I would try to form/find a team of "credible" maintainers.... jaclaz

GROUND, when we are talking of low voltage DC doesn't come from "thin air", you have to have ALL the devices you are using have the low side (0V) ALL connected together. I.e. the BLACK (make sure it is the 0V) of the adapter NEEDS to be connected to the GROUND of the disk AND to the 0V (again BLACK) of the power supply. This way you make sure they all share the same "base potential" and you avoid the possible loops of data. In TTL the data is represented by voltage levels that are the differential voltages from a "common base", i.e. the 0 (zero) Volt level. If any of the devices "leak" a small amount of voltage this "base level" may be higher (or lower) on one device as compared to another device, and this can lead to mis-interpreting the DATA. jaclaz

Which one? The one in NY?: http://brightonlawgroup.com/Home.html I knew a chap that used to work in there, cannot remember his name right now, Klagefeld, or something like that, do you know him? jaclaz

Check this one: http://mt-naka.com/hotswap/index_enu.htm jaclaz

Do you also know which filesystems the two OS actually use? jaclaz